March 03, 2015

?Master Acquisition Plan? for Los Alamos Cleanup To Be Out By June

By ExchangeMonitor
A “master acquisition plan” for future Los Alamos cleanup procurements should be out by June, with draft requests for proposals released by the end of the summer, Department of Energy officials said yesterday at an industry day for the procurements in Pojoaque, N.M. DOE plans to break out cleanup work from the Lab’s M&O contract in one or more procurements over the next one to two years, and is seeking capability statements from companies interested in participating by the end of the month. After receiving industry input, DOE will develop a master acquisition plan, said Tamara Miles of the Office of Environmental Management’s Consolidated Business Center Office of Contracting. “That plan will identify the various procurements that we are looking to accomplish. And we are looking to have that approved by no later than June of this year,” she said, adding later, “I would certainly envision that we would have a draft RFP out on the street by the end of the summer.”

The scope of the work would include transuranic waste cleanup, groundwater and other environmental remediation, waste management, decontamination and decommissioning and regulatory support. With a heavy small business presence at the industry day, DOE officials said that they would focus on opportunities for small businesses as well as fixed price work. However, they haven’t yet identified the number of procurements or scope that would lend itself to being broken out. “We’ll see what we can get by the end of the month from the RFIs,” EM CBC Director Jack Craig told WC Monitor on the sidelines of the meeting. “Clearly we want to focus on small business and if there are things that make sense with small business and fixed price contracting we want to pursue both of those.”

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